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He continued: “We have to make sure we stick to our core values and that’s hard work and that’s discipline. The players are honest enough. They know it was a poor performance and it’s only one game.

“I don’t want the players to all of a sudden think that they’re bad players overnight because as I said they played some good games through pre-season and all it takes is 90 minutes to make sure we get a good performance.

“Then we’ve got to make sure we’re strong enough going into the game on Saturday [against Accrington].

He added: “We were hurting, certainly on Saturday, for the supporters that travelled.

“Certainly, it was a very disappointing game from our point of view.

“We sat down as a group and we came up with the idea that it’s important that we try and refund them because their commitment, certainly for the 17 years that I’ve been at the football club, has been very, very good.”